"FACTS KEPT FROM BRITAIN"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 5

"FACTS KEPT FROM BRITAIN"

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Mr Churchill'* Complaint on Army Estimates

BUT FOREIGNERS KNOW

(By Telegraph—

(Reoeived 5, 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 4. In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill, speaking on the army estimates, oomplained that effective discussion was baffled by the Government's vagueness and lacJt of. any quantitive statement or date at which particular progress was reached. There was no assurance that the programmes would he carried out punctually and no means whereby the House could check progress. They knew that the Air Force programme was in arrear and there was also the sepious question of the large number of foreigners here belonging to Nazi or Fascist organisations. There wero any number of facts of which the House had no jnformaijiqp. but on which the foreign staff was probobly well informed.. Mr G. O. Ammon (Labour) moved the rejection of the Bill, which, he said was a betrayal of the electors, because the Government obtained a major ity at the last election on peace pledges, whereas this was a war measure The Labour amendment was defeated* by 241 votes to 117 and the Bill was read the third tixne.